3 posts tagged “brooke”

What's a leap of faith to you? Have you ever taken one?

A leap of faith to me is making a major decision without knowing for sure if or how it will be accomplished, but knowing that you will find a way to make it happen.

Have I taken one? Sure. Coming to Seattle in 1999, hoping to get my foot in the door with a tech job before things went pear-shaped. We moved up from Olympia to live with my mother in Bremerton, and I would take the ferry across every day on my job hunt. Amazingly enough, it only took about a month to get a decent position, and I was employed in less dreamy positions during part of that time. Brooke and I found an apartment a few weeks later, and we've pretty much been geeks in Seattle ever since (with a few hiccups thanks to layoffs).

In the span of about 1 year I went from a bitter separation and a minimart job to a nice apartment and the beginnings of a tech career in Seattle. I wouldn't have been willing to make that move if not for Brooke's faith, encouragement, and occasional butt-kicking. We're married now, but I guess that seems pretty obvious.

It's sort of a knitting "doodle" that I put together between Sunday and Tuesday. I was just digging through the yarn basket, picked two colors, and started making something. I didn't know it was going to be a wallet until a few rows in. Brooke is pleased - she got two knitted gifts in one week.

Wallet

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This has a few firsts:

•     First time knitting with two yarns at once - on the cover
•     First time using crochet to join pieces
•     First button!

I need to get a better camera. The camera phone is convenient, but not great for showing off.

I think I figured out what I'll use this blog for: finished projects. Knitting, programs, new web pages, whatever. So here's the first - a pair of green socks that I knitted for Brooke. That brings the sock pair count up to 3. I'm just talking about hand knitted socks. She owns many other socks that weren't made by me.

Green socks for Brooke